Custer: Book Second (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
IOh, for the power to call to aid, of mineOwn humble Muse, the famed and sacred nine.Then might she fitly ...
IOh, for the power to call to aid, of mineOwn humble Muse, the famed and sacred nine.Then might she fitly ...
IAs in the long dead days marauding hostsOf Indians came from far Siberian coasts,And drove the peaceful Aztecs from their ...
IAll valor died not on the plains of Troy.Awake, my Muse, awake! be thine the joyTo sing of deeds as ...
There was a sound in the wind to-day,Like a joyous cymbal ringing!And the leaves of the trees talked with the ...
The gate was thrown open, I rode out alone,More proud than a monarch who sits on a throne.I am but ...
Once over the ocean in distant lands,In an age long past, were two hostile bands—Two armies of men, both brave, ...
When night hung low and dew fell damp,There fell athwart the shadowsThe gleaming watchfires of the camp,Like glow-worms on the ...
We met at night in the season's hight,Mid revel and mirth and song.I looked in your eye with a mute, ...
The devil to Bacchus said, one day,In a scowling, growling, petulant way,As he came from earth to hell:"There's a soul ...
The sweet young Spring walks over the earth,It flushes and glows on moor and lea;The birds are singing in careless ...
Though you see no banded army,Though you hear no cannons rattle,We are in a mighty contest,We are fighting a great ...
These agent men! these agent men!We hear the dreaded step again,We see a stranger at the door;And brace ourselves for ...
I have been down in the darkest water—Deep, deep down where no light could pierce;Alone with the things that are ...
Two harvesters walked through the rows of corn,Down to the ripe wheat fields, one morn.Both were fair, in the flush ...
Where are the temperance people?Well, scattered here and there:Some gathering in their produceTo show at the autumn fair;Some threshing wheat ...
Not Atlas, with his shoulders bent beneath the weighty world,Bore such a burden as this man, on whom the Gods ...
There was a kingdom known as the Mind,A kingdom vast as fair,And the brave king, Brain, had the right to ...
Ho! for the day in the whole year the brightest!Long may it live in the heart of the nation!Long may ...
Thou dost not know it! but to hearOne word of praise from thee,There is no pain I would not bear,No ...
For the courage which comes when we call,While troubles like hailstones fall;For the help that is somehow nigh,In the deepest ...
Ho! ho! Father Death! I have won you another!Another grand soul I have ruined and taken;I, who am licensed by ...
England, father and mother in one,Look on your stalwart son.Sturdy and strong, with the valour of youth,Where is another so ...
I saw a Christian, a temperance man,Casting his ballot one day at the polls:One who believes he does what he ...
DEDICATED TO THE MEN AND WOMEN OF FRANCEOur Motherland, dear Motherland,The source of beauty and of Art,Who but thy children ...
When you launch your bark for sailingOn the sea of life, O youth!Clothe your heart and soul and spiritIn the ...
There is a courage, a majestic thingThat springs forth from the brow of pain, full-grown,Minerva-like, and dares all dangers known,And ...
In the dawn of the day when the sea and the earth Reflected the sunrise above, I set forth with ...
However the battle is ended, Though proudly the victor comes With fluttering flags and prancing nags And echoing roll of ...
However the battle is ended, Though proudly the victor comes, With flaunting flags and neighing nags And echoing roll of ...
Let me to-day do something that shall take A little sadness from the world's vast store, And may I be ...
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